Driver stabbed in ‘random racist attack’

AN ASIAN delivery driver stabbed to death on a petrol station forecourt may have been the victim of a random racist attack, police said yesterday.

Qamar Mirza, 48 and the father of five daughters and one son, was killed with an 8in kitchen knife by a white man who approached him as he cleaned his car’s windscreen early yesterday at a 24-hour garage in Cricklewood, northwest London.

Mr Mirza, described by police as a hard-working family man, had just finished his day working for local restaurants and had paid for his petrol at the garage kiosk.

The killer bought some cigarettes from the garage and then walked across the forecourt towards Mr Mirza. Words may have been exchanged before he was stabbed at least once.